The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-01-13


dent not Dangerously Sick-North
Carolina Notes.
Special Correspondence of the Sentinel.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.-After hav-
ing indulged in its usual Christmas
| vacation, Congress is at work again
| the President is almost well of his
rheumatism; Mrs. Cleveland has be-
gun holding semi weekly MONDAY re-
ceptions; there is an organized fight
against the confirmation of reformer
| Benedict, the new Public Printer; un-
founded rumors of Cabinet changes |
continue to float through the air, and
there is a good deal Of talk about an
extra session.
The Tariff question by no means
received a quietus in the recent vote
against discussing revenue bills, and
a number Of plans are spoken of for
getting it up in Congress yet before
the close of the session. When Hon.
S. S. Cox was asked what was now the
paramount question before Congress,
he replied, "Never since | have been
i'll Cons ress has the Tariff question as
sumed such proportions" He thinks
a majority in the House of Represen-
tatlves would vote for reduction of
the tax of sugar. The reason for su-
gar legislation is that it is an element
of life, absolutely indispensable, al
most as much of a necessity as bread
itself. The amount of the tax upon
that article through the Tariff can
easily be estimated by those who
choose to figure on it.
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on the ways and means committee for
the remainder of the session, and it is
thought he intends to take an aggres-
sive part in trying to bring about
reduction Of the revenue this session.
1t is said he has an idea for bringing
about a compromise by which enough
votes can be had to at least take up
the consideration of the Tariff question
In the Senate also it is said Senator
Vest will soon introduce resolution
; asking Congress to take some step
that will bring about the promised re-
duction of the surplus. 1t is under
stood that the President is seriously
urging the matter, and that what
both Senator Vest and Representative
Cox do, will be done at his suggestion.
!
: something was done, he would be COM
, PEELED to call an extra session of the
) Fiftieth Congress shortly after the ex-
piration of this. The impression grows
: daily that one may be called, and in
, that event the appointment of sue
cessor to Col. Morrison as Chairman
of the Ways and Means Committee
| will soon take place. The organiza-
: tion of the next Congress and the for
) nation of its policy may begin as
, soon as this session ends.
| The persistency with which certain
newspaper correspondents have tried
;, to make President Cleveland a dan
gerously sick man is as ludicrous as
are the attempts of the same inevota-
! BILE pen drivers to break up Mr.
Cleveland's Cabinet. Rumors about
Cabinet changes that begin with the
regisnation of Secretary Manning, fol-
: low with the retirement of Secretary
I Bayard, and end with the displace-
ment of Attorney General Garland,
T T find their way to Washington from a
. distance every two or. three weeks,
and are as often denied. The latest
: gossip makes Ex-Governor Hoadly of
! Ohio, the successor of both Messrs
Manning and Garland.
: Congress goes on adding to the II,
= 600 bills already on the calendar, pill
ing up new batch every week, Just
as If its life We're going to last forever.
A large number of bills have been in
! troduced providing for agricultural
experiment stations in the different
States, and although nothing has yet
been done for them, bills of the same
v kind continue to be presented.
! Mr.. Reall, of New York, who is the
= President of the American Dairy As
y sociation, is here for the purpose OF
: promoting agricultural interests in
! Congress. The three pending meas
- ures that the Association is most anx-
. ious to have passed are the Depart
% meat of Agriculture bill, the Animal
Industry bill, and the bill for Agri
) cultural Experiment Stations Mr.
= = Reall holds that the Oleomargarine
e bill mas already proved itself to be
the most useful piece of legislation
ever enacted by Congress in the inter
II ests of Agriculture. 1t is stated thai
=, the law has SO far saved over 81 900,
I 600 to the dairy farmers of New York
! State alone The Senate is wrestling
with the Interstate Commerce bill
now, and it Is said Senator Evarts in
" tends opposing it on the ground tina
it violates, in some way, the Treaty O
es Washington Recently, in group o
rs Senators, which was discussing thei
We associates in the Upper House. it wa